The icy wind howled through the trees as we walked down this terrifying, dark, leaf ridden, forest. The leaves crunching as we trudge deeper through this horrid, pungent place. I didn’t even want to come out here in the first place. I was perfectly fine sitting at home with my brand new Fallout 4 Game and my brand new gaming chair, but no. That didn’t matter whatsoever, everyone wanted to see where it happened. You know what happened, don’t you? That’s the worst part. There should have been no reason for those children to be playing all the way over there.They were such sweet children. Always so polite and never got in trouble, at least from what I can remember. It’s January for godsake. There is snow and ice covering everything we pass and …show more content…
It’s an awful place for children to play, so I don’t understand what in their right minds would make it seem like it was okay to come out here. I mean even we had to walk all the way from downtown Crystal Lake due to the lack of parking, and let me tell you, that is not a fun walk. There’s about an hour of walking even though these two places are almost right across the street from each other. In fact, downtown Crystal Lake is only a mile or two down the road from Veteran acres. However, to get to the actual location of the incident, that is what adds on an extra thirty minutes. In addition to that, you have to walk from the main road, which starts on the south side of Downtown. Our problem was that you have to head north, across the four different busy train tracks which tend to lead to a lot of train traffic and car traffic. After you venture past the tracks, you are then introduced to several different hair stylists, a few small businesses, such as La Amore, Muse Art: paint studio, and La rosita. After that you're surrounded by cookie cutter houses and the road. This road is so busy that some days it’s so backed up that you have to wait more than forty minutes just to arrive at the
stories. When the two women come up to the lake, the boys do not tell
Upon returning from his annual two-week vacation in early July of 2002, the treasurer of the Spring Valley Forest Products Corporation, a Mr. Fred Firr, found the firm's audited balance sheet as of June 30 on his desk. Close scrutiny of the company's financial condition as reported in this document suggested to Mr. Firr that the cash flow picture for the enterprise was deteriorating. In times gone by, the firm had been able to maintain sizeable cash balances in its bank of account, Tippecanoe Trust Company, during the major portion of the fiscal year, and had found only modest seasonal borrowings necessary. Recently, however, a lengthening of credit terms to customers necessitated by intense
Since Texas did not have many lakes people took it into their own hands to build lakes in the state. One of these lakes is called Joe Pool Lake which is in Southern Dallas. This lake took more than 25 years of planning and over a decade of construction (Joe Pool Lake 2008). The lake opened in 1989 and became one of the most popular destinations in Dallas (Joe Pool Lake 2008). The lake includes things such as lake parks, camping, boat ramps, marinas, hunting, and fishing. This is a great place for both residents and tourists. You can see the beauty of the natural geography and enjoy the man-made geography. It has a surface area of 7,400 acres when full and has over 60 miles of shoreline (joe Pool Lake 2008). This man-made location is great for
Upstream along the Colorado River from Lake Austin is Lake Travis. Created when the Mansfield Dam was finished in 1941, this lake has the most notoriety in the greater Austin area as a recreational destination spot. Scenic limestone cliffs, stunning vistas and clear water make it a statewide hot spot for beautiful restaurants, camping and hiking, fishing, water sports and waterfront homes.
Longfellow creek is the second largest bearing creek in Seattle. Every year, salmon return to the creek but few make it all the way to spawning due to the threatened habitat. This is one of many reasons why they need our help. Restoring the habitat along the creek as well as adjacent greenspaces will help to improve the water quality and provide the appropriate habitat for the salmon to come (True, 2005). Improving the habitat will help to maintain healthy and thriving forests. They are important to our community because they absorb and filter rain water, produce clean oxygen, provide living spaces for wildlife, and create a place for people to connect with the outdoors. Due to their rapid reproduction, the invasive species are taking away food resources and living space from the native plants, increasing the competition causing native plants to die over time. If these native plants continue to degrade, many animal
Bradbury’s (1967) dissertation research was the first comprehensive study of Zuni Salt Lake maar. Based on a radiocarbon age of 22.9 ± 1.4 ka 14C yr BP (Haynes et al., 1967) on aquatic, calcareous algae from Zuni Salt Lake lacustrine deposits 15 m above the present lake level, he concluded that the Zuni Salt Lake maar formed during the late Pleistocene. This single date provided a maximum age for the Zuni Salt Lake maar but has long been viewed as suspect because of probable hardwater carbon-reservoir effects. Subsequent argon dating of Zuni Salt Lake volcanic rocks resulted in low-resolution plateau ages of 114 ± 38 ka and 86 ± 31 ka (McIntosh and Cather, 1994).
A normal day can turn into a day filled with icy cold snow and warm hot chocolate just by one call. One call that gives everyone around the school district a sigh of relief that they can curl up back in their comfy beds and sleep for an extra two or more hours. Some may wonder how one call makes everyone’s day so much better: it is because it is a call from the school saying there is no school today due to icy conditions. Upon hearing this one can be sure that their phone will be buzzing with ones friends asking what they are doing today, or maybe one snoozes through all the texts and continues to curl up in one’s warm blankets, with dogs heating ones feet. No matter what one chooses to do there always seems to be a trend as one gets older. This trend is that in the grades kindergarten through fifth grade, children love snow days to stay outside and play; then in grades sixth through ninth, children love snow days to stay inside and watch movies; finally children tenth through twelfth grade, children love snow days to again go outside and play.
Over one hundred and twenty five years ago one of the most powerful, disastrous, and devastating snowstorms hit the United States with a deadly vengeance. This particular storm was called by a couple of different names such as “The Murderous Blizzard of 1888” and The School Children’s Blizzard”. No matter which name it is referred as, the results after the storm were gravely unimaginable. Without warning this storm killed over five hundred people mostly children. This life changing, painstaking day would hunt families for years to come. This day in history showed a normal routine of chores being done while school children went off to school, a shift in weather, the blizzard, and life after the blizzard.
No one was prepared for this: The storms were meant to come next month, and yet it seems that God has played a trick on us, leaving us entirely at his mercy. Everyone here is trying to be as close together as possible to share any ounce of heat that can be sustained. The shelters we built were a feeble attempt at any proper haven that would keep the chill out, yet even the smallest gap in the shelters made the cold barge in, leaving us all as a shivering cluster in the snow. Whilst trying to find more wood to build the shelters, my leg skid across the raw ice that coated some areas of the ground, and left me with a gaping tear in both of my knees, stinging with an insufferable ache when the cool wind whips my bare skin. Yet that seems to be the least of my concerns as I observe William, my little brother. He has grown weary and feeble, his skin looking paler with each passing day. I tried to tell father, but he was so busy trying to plan what to do with the other men that I did not manage to get him away for a quiet moment. I gave William my additional quilt, but he barely clings on to it, as if he has lost all strength in his body. He doesn’t even take any food into his system, even as I try to coerce him into eating, and by the time we are meant to settle in for a dark night of an attempt to sleep, someone has already eaten
Misty Creek in Sarasota is a secluded, quiet community with 302 one and two-story single-family homes with 3,200 total square feet or more. Over 730 acres of natural and picturesque landscape surrounds Misty Creek, which lies three miles from Interstate 75. The community sits next to a wildlife preserve, and residents often feel as though they are living in the country with open-space conservation areas. With the natural surroundings, most of the homes in the community are densely wooded.
Situated between Glacier National Park and Flathead Lake, in the northwest corner of Montana, just west of the Continental Divide, the Flathead Valley is a federally protected, breathtaking, scenic and recreational treasure. Locals call the valley “Flathead” and it is sheltered by the Salish Mountains to the west, and the Whitefish, Swan and Mission Ranges to the east. The largest natural freshwater lake west of the Mississippi, Flathead Lake, is responsible for keeping the valley watered. Kalispell is the largest city in Flathead Valley and a commercial hub, and provides access to Wild Horse Island State Park.
Lake Granby is located in the mountains of Colorado, near the town of Granby. The third largest body of water in Colorado, it is at an elevation of 8,284 feet. In 1950 the Granby Dam was completed, and is a part of the Colorado –Big Thompson Project (CBT). The CBT provides a large water resource for the Front Range. Along with being used to supply the Front Range with water, it is also the headwaters of the Colorado River. Water levels in the lake are extremely important to both the Front Range and the downstream users of the watershed. This is a unique situation for water because the water that is used in the CBT has to cross the continental divide. There must also be enough water that travels downstream due to water rights in, and outside the watershed. Proper water management of the system at a lake wide scale is the most important sustainability issue for the area.
Meet Steve Davidson. For more than 20 years, Steve has been an avid recreational canoer. In addition, Steve also acquired wood working skills during 15 of his 20 years canoeing, and for the past 10 years Steve has combined his love for canoeing with his wood working abilities. This combination of hobby and skills resulted in the design and construction of three canoes which Steve sold after using each for one season.
Loveland Ski Area is near to the hearts and homes of generations of Colorado skiers and riders. Just 53 miles from Denver, Loveland offers uncrowded slopes, remarkable terrain, free close-in parking and a season that lasts from October through May. Loveland also averages 400″ of snow each season – more than any Front Range or Summit County resort. Loveland is a perfect place for those that simply want to ski and ride. This is Colorado. Welcome home.
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